SHALL THE SPECIAL INTEREST RULE
Kittle, William
Shall the Special Interests Rule? By WILLIAM KITTLE III. The Joker in the Sugar Schedule of the Tariff. 1. The Secret of the Sugar Trust's Power. 2. The Sugar Trust and the Mormon Church. 3....
...Every voter can know and ought to know how he is forced to pay tribute to the Sugar Trust...
...He will give the essential facts contained in three articles by Richard W. Child and others in Everybody'* relative to the tariff on wool.— EDITOR'S NOTE...
...WELLIVER states: "The most remarkable partnership in the United States is that of the Mormon Church and the Sugar Trust, for the domination of the beet sugar business of the country...
...He championed the cause of Aldrich and the Sugar Trust...
...Tariff Gives Trust a Monopoly THE TARIFF cn sugar above No...
...4. Segal in Sugar Land...
...When the sugar crystals are between No...
...All the leading nations of tho world except the United States have long since abandoned the Dutch Standard and adopted the polarisc^pe test which determines scientifically and exactly the purity of sugar...
...that Mario G. Menocal, the manager of the Sugar Trust's estates in Cuba, was made a candidate for the presidency of the island...
...The Sugar Trust owns or controls the beet sugar industry and then pretends that the "Joker,"—Dutch Standard No...
...This "Jokei" in the tariff has been carefully prepared to keep out of the country the light-colored sugar which would be bought by the American family...
...2. The Amalgamated Sugar Company...
...that the Trust has organized another company to invest Trust money in Cuba...
...Hence the imported sugar must go to the refinery and the Sugar Trust owns or controls most of the refineries of the United States...
...The Smoot-Aldrich schedule was adopted...
...Shall this criminal trust, already convicted in the courts, continue its profit and menace of privilege...
...But the Trust itself, on January 13, 1910, published its ownership of stock in the Michigan Sugar Company...
...16 in color is low enough to bring from all the producing regions of the world to the United States an unlimited supply of the dark colored sugar...
...50,000,000 Graft Not Enough MR...
...The sugar consumer in the United States must pay the price fixed by the combination owning or controlling all the refineries...
...Welliver names the following beet sugar companies which are owned, controlled or closely affiliated by stock ownership with the Sugar Trust or the Mormon Church or both: 1. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company...
...Kittle will tell more about these Jokers in legislation and how costly they are to the American people...
...16—and adopt the polariscope test...
...The sugar maker of Cuba must watch his whirling centrifugals very closely to make the sugar crystals dark enough to be below No...
...The remedy is simple and direct: Strike out the Joker—Dutch Standard No...
...Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was the chief defender of Dutch Standard No...
...1909...
...The "Joker" in our tariff makes him work very carefully to send his sugar to the refineries of the American Sugar Trust where it is whitened...
...But the American family will not buy sugar below No...
...Every Republican senator frcm a state where Mormon influence is potent in politics voted for it...
...16 in the last tariff debate...
...The Trust gets the 'Profit of Privilege' coming and going...
...Senator Burrows of Michigan in the same debate in 1909 solemnly denied that the Michigan Sugar Company was connected with the Sugar Trust...
...By the "Joker" the Sugar Trust becomes the sole purchaser of all the imported sugar...
...WELLIVER shows that the Sugar Trust, through a holding company, a New Jersey corporation, "owns a string of splendid Cuban sugar estates...
...Trust Controls Beet Sugar Industry MR...
...Even Holland has abolished the obsolete and inaccurate color standard...
...3. The Annexation of Cuba by the Sugar Trust...
...The tariff on sugar below No...
...Mormon or Sugar Trust control runs through all of these beet sugar companies...
...16 and so get the low tariff rates to the United States...
...By false weighing and bribery at the custom houses, it has descended to the level of a common thief and a corrupter of government officials...
...The Dutch Standard originated in Holland and "consisted of twenty glass bottles filled with twenty grades of sugar carefully graduated in color from the darkest, No...
...The Sugar Trust, founded by Henry O. Havemeyer, was not satisfied with levying upon the American consumer an annual tribute of $50,000,000, it was not satisfied with exploiting Cuba...
...The sugar maker of Cuba must accept the price fixed by the Sugar Trust...
...16_ is for the benefit of the independent beet sugar producer...
...16 Dutch Standard in color...
...The refining or rather whitening of 4 or 5 per cent, is but an insignificant part of the process of making sugar...
...The Sugar Trust is also a heavy stockholder in The Amalgamated Sugar Company...
...5. The American Beet Sugar Company...
...But this out-of-date Dutch Standard has been purposely kept in our tariff to give the Sugar Trust a monopoly of all the imported sugar and also a monopoly of all the refined sugar sold to the American consumer...
...Those eight words conceal the "Joker" which costs the American consumer of sugar $50,000,000 annually...
...By Judson C. Welllver in the January, March and May, Hampton's...
...16, they are of a light straw color, too dark to sell directly to the consumer...
...1, to the lightest, No...
...Editorials in La Follette'a, June 5 and 19...
...The combination absolutely dominates beet sugar...
...5. How to Deal with a Criminal Trust...
...that the 20 per cent, reciprocity clause in the tariff, on its face in favor of the Cuban trade, has netted the Trust several millions a year...
...15 and No...
...16 Dutch Standard in color is practically prohibitive...
...4. The Michigan Sugar Company...
...Next week, Mr...
...16 sugar is from 96 per cent, to 97 per cent, pure and it would cost the Cuban sugar maker but a trifle more to whiten it for the American market...
...Mr...
...Almost every senator from a state where there is a beet sugar factory in which the Sugar Trust is interested, voted for it...
...By its monopoly of the refineries, it controls the entire out-put and price of sugar on the American market...
...Joseph F. Smith, the President of the Mormon Church is also President of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company and a director of The Amalgamated Sugar Company...
...It gives the Trust the monopoly of the only kind of sugar the people will buy...
...pure...
...It makes the market prices of sugar, distributes the territory, and completely controls tariff legislation...
...3. The Great Western Sugar Company...
...This effectually destroys all competition with the Sugar Trust...
...They control somewhere from two-thirds to four-fifths of the beet sugar of the country...
...THE secret of the Sugar Trust's power is found in eight innocent-looking words of the tariff: "Not above No...
...it was not content with absorbing' the beet sugar industry...
...And yet on this simple and inexpensive part of the process, the Sugar Trust by its "Joker" in our tariff and by its control of all the refineries, —by a trick and a monopoly, takes from the American people annually a graft of more than $50,000,000...
...When a cargo of sugar came into Amsterdam, samples were taken to a broker's office and 'matched' with the standard colors...
...It gives pleasure to Aldrich and his associates in the Sugar Trust that most of the people cannot see through the game and just how the trick is performed...
...and that sugar stocks and bonds have been freely used to corrupt members of Congress...
...16 in color, although in fact, it may be 97 per cent...
...It takes a mental effort to see how this "Joker" operates to swindle the American people...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 24
